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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: ASKEW, A.). Bibliotheca Askeviana. Sive Catalogus Librorum rarissimorum Antonii Askew, M.D. London: 1775.
Quorum Auctio fiet apud S. Baker & G. Leigh...Die Lunae 13 Februarii MDCCLXXV. & in undeviginiti sequentes Dies... vi, 149, [1] pp. 8vo, cont. marbled boards (rebacked with calf), spine gilt. London: 1775. A nice copy of this important sale catalogue, ruled in red and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. "Another great collector of the same generation was Dr Anthony Askew (1722-1772), who travelled on the Continent and whose achievements in the medical field are quite eclipsed by his proficiency as a classical scholar. As a book-collector, he is said to have attempted to secure a complete series of all the Greek classics ever published; he purchased privately R. Mead's Greek manuscripts, the papers of Dr Taylor and some fine early classics codices from the library of the Maffei family. His sale (13 February 1775) was a great success and was attended by the Paris bookseller De Bure, who bought for the Duc de La Vallière and other French collectors (including the King of France)."De Ricci, p. 52.The leaf of "Libri Omissi" is present. 3570 lots.Peignot, p. 78"Catalogue assez curieux, surtout pour les anciennes éditions."
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